"As a team and a club, we're in a better place and we've reacted and responded very well to that disappointment."

Hughton has not spoken to the players about their last match at the Riverside Stadium and said: "Will the players be thinking about it? Some might harp back to the thoughts of that game but I haven't spoken to the players apart from tactical stuff.

"I haven't spoken about the last trip, so in all honesty I'm not sure how they're thinking.

"They'll think it's another opportunity to get through in a cup competition, it's not the Premier League but if you're talking outside the Premier League, they don't come any tougher than this away from home.

"They've got a new manager and a very good squad. That's what they'll be thinking of as opposed to last time around."